What advice do you have for others considering Nutanix Prism?

Nutanix Prism automation capability impacts operational efficiency by improving costs. The implementation of the product has increased the productivity of our employees. Nutanix Prism helps with IT operations. The AI-driven management of the tool contributes to the overall IT infrastructure. I recommend the product to others who plan to use it. Simplicity, automation, and efficiency are some good areas associated with the tool. My company does take care of the maintenance of the product for our customers. Just one person is required to maintain the product. I rate the tool a ten out of ten.

We are currently doing the migration process and creating the data store. We have not used the tool's automation capabilities. We might be able to use the automation capabilities with the help of a Nutanix expert since we are new to the product. We do not use AI integrations. We are evaluating Sangfor for other projects. I will recommend the tool to my colleagues and friends. It has good market value. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

The maintenance is very easy. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Our company does have plans to opt for the maintenance services for the solution, but presently, we are in the process of hiring a technical team that can take care of the post-sales area, along with the management and maintenance of the new clusters in Nutanix. Our company has a team in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. There are four to five people in Abu Dhabi and around four to five people in Dubai. Overall, our company has a team of ten to fifteen engineers to take care of the product. As my organization is a huge company in the UAE, we have different entities working on different solutions. Along with MDS Dubai, another entity works on different solutions from Dell, so our company has engineers from Dell as well. Combined, our company has a good amount of resources when it comes to the technical team. I rate the overall tool a seven and a half out of ten.

We run some workloads on the cloud but mostly on local data centers. We could also have a ROBO office installation, like a remote branch office. Nutanix is used for just the management of the cluster. Nutanix is used for databases and generic virtualization workloads. We even have some desktops. I have all the use cases that various customers and various sectors describe. Using Nutanix Prism has reduced the complexity of the management of the solution. There's not a lot to configure for Prism to work. It's preinstalled out of the box. It’s good. Our operations are simplified. Nutanix Prism’s user interface is very powerful and very simple. The single-pane-of-glass user experience is very powerful. Prism Central is very powerful and very simple. We can get a lot done. There are versions of Prism for each node and each cluster. We can manage multiple Nutanix clusters with Prism Central. It can control all the different clusters together. I do not use Nutanix for automation much. However, we can take advantage of the built-in features if we need them. The network visibility and micro-segmentation of Nutanix Prism works, but it's a limited use case with just micro-segmentation. The same tag we use on-premises can't be reused in the cloud. It's limited. Nutanix Prism can do some predictive analysis, which is helpful. Especially when we're trying to manage capacity, it can determine workload based on past behavior. The statistical analysis helps us to preplan. It has helped improve the efficiency of our organization’s IT management. It works to improve the efficiency by simplifying the task at hand. It has decreased our effort by 30 to 40%. Nutanix Prism has helped the productivity of our organization’s application developers. We can provision environments for them faster with less effort. It helps DevOps because the team can get the environment it needs to start working on its projects. Nutanix Prism is a little behind on some things related to security posture. Prism has a built-in life cycle management, so we feel more enabled to tackle the tasks. Nutanix Prism is a good product. However, there’s still room for improvement. Overall, I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

I rate Nutanix Prism a 10 out of 10. Potential customers should do a POC before making up their minds. You can also check case studies for use cases with similar workloads. A test drive is helpful because you can get an idea of what the platform will look like.

I give Nutanix Prism a nine out of ten. We fumbled a bit with Nutanix Prism's automation, but we haven't found a practical use for it. We already have several third-party tools in place that effectively manage our large-scale deployments. Additionally, we have numerous custom scripts already set up, enabling us to build hundreds of systems. Consequently, we haven't felt the need or desire to reinvent the wheel within Nutanix Prism since our current setup works well for us. Currently, we are not using Flow as we have not implemented it yet. We are in the process of replacing our underlying physical network switches with multiple vendors. We are waiting to have one specific product across the entire network before we proceed with implementing Flow within Nutanix. On our roadmap for this current quarter are containers. Looking ahead, AI will be on our roadmap for the next year. Potentially, we'll be working on some AI-related projects in the last quarter of this year in response to compromised endpoints. We haven't fully explored granting our app development team or our DBAs access to the environment. Since I joined, we've refreshed about 85 percent of all the infrastructure at this organization. Consequently, there have been numerous changes, leaving little time for in-depth exploration. We haven't made much progress in automation, though we would like to. Unfortunately, time constraints have prevented us from doing so. Once we finish that task, we plan to onboard our DBAs and explore the benefits of what they now refer to as the Nutanix Era after a recent name change. It seems highly advantageous for the DBAs, but unfortunately, we haven't had the time to allocate to such projects yet. Our main focus has been on a complete refresh of the organization's infrastructure. The onboarding experience between Prism and VMware is different, obviously. With Nutanix, we have the ability to go from days and weeks of implementation time, once we have the hardware on-site, to just hours and days. Sometimes, we can get a cluster up and fully running in a single day. Of course, we still have a test validation period, but at this point, we haven't encountered any issues. We can get a cluster up in a day, and it's ready for production, pending vetting and testing. This never happened with VMware vSphere, but it's important to note that VMware vSphere is not a hyper-converged solution; it operates on a three-tier model. Therefore, it's expected that VMware vSphere would take longer. Nevertheless, Nutanix has significantly reduced the implementation time by a factor of seven to ten. I was involved in deploying everything in our DR site that had not been implemented by the time I started, and I set it up initially. Our Prism cluster went from a single Prism instance to a clustered Prism environment. As far as the ability goes, we started implementing the second cluster with help from our vendor. After that, we became champions, saying that we were ready to do it on our own. We believed it was easy enough to handle independently. However, we weren't sure if the administration had already established a statement of work in place. Nonetheless, we went ahead and proceeded with the third implementation, working with the service provider. We managed the last four implementations on our own, relying on our team. Our team currently consists of seven people, with all but two having been involved in previous implementations or expansions. Thus, everyone is quite familiar with the process, making it easy for them to handle day-to-day tasks, such as adding guest VMs or snapshotting. While the overall process has been intuitive, we are still continuously learning. There's a lot more to explore and accomplish, but due to the time spent on refreshing our current environment, we haven't delved into everything yet. Realistically, within a couple of weeks after starting, we had our new employee, who joined about a year and a half ago, up and running. He was already familiar with the technology, particularly VMware, which shares some similarities. Learning the system is comparable to understanding and mastering a new language, figuring out how to put everything together systematically, and using the right terminologies. The interface is user-friendly and intuitive. Our new team member had minimal questions and was able to work efficiently within a week or two. There are feature updates and security updates that we have to apply. Besides that, once we have set up our dashboard with the widgets we want, adding a new cluster to our environment and integrating it into Prism is straightforward. There's nothing much to change. Just upgrades and security patches, which are pretty simple. We just go into the portal, select the upgrade we want to apply, and let it run. There is a community edition. I'd say, give it a try. We can grab the community edition. The software doesn't care what hardware we run it on, so we could test it on whatever hardware we have available. And, we see, the proof is in the pudding. People should test it out for themselves.

I'd recommend this solution. I'd rate it a nine out of ten.

My advice is to first look at the workload you're trying to move. Use the workload-sizing sheets that are available on the internet. There are plenty of test drives available. We did a couple of test drives, running the Nutanix cluster to understand how it works. We have some use cases around running IoT devices that we have been testing with our developers. We looked at where they fit better by running them both in the on-prem and the cloud portions. That way, we determine which environment will be better when running new workloads. Overall, it gives you a user-friendly single-pane UI, a centralized console, with a lot of valuable features for managing the environment.

Always work closely with a technical account manager and the sales engineer. If you're deploying from new, or even as a proof of concept, there is a lot of terminology and a lot of functions and features that are new for someone coming from traditional, three-tier architecture. Work closely with them, familiarize yourself with it, and get into a course.

It's going to make your life a lot easier. The installation is very painful but, once it's complete, your life will be so much easier. It's worth the effort, but you have to be ready for the difficulty of the installation

I looked at their new offering called Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Azure. And I like what I'm seeing, so I have a meeting set up this afternoon to speak with their subject matter expert on that topic. That may be down the road for us. Currently, we don't have their cloud service. I would advise others to consider Nutanix and give it a try. It's a really good solution, especially for small to medium-sized organizations, and definitely for VDI. However, there was a "gotcha" for us. Do understand that the management overhead is pretty big. About 25 to 30 percent is consumed off the bat by their management called CVM. That means that 25 to 30 percent of the memory and CPU that you buy are gone. So make sure you size it properly, with that in mind.

It is very efficient for managing compared to any standalone server, whether it's HPE, Dell, or whatever you are using in your environment. You can easily manage things with Nutanix. It's a one-stop shop. You can use Prism Central to manage all your clusters and there is lifecycle management to deploy your software. I would highly recommend it.

Prism Central will show when there are inefficiencies between VMs. We don't own the license to allow Prism Central to show those inefficiencies. But overall, we really have never had any issues where our VMs were underutilized or had production inefficiencies with them. Our environments have been working regardless, even though we don't have the proper Prism Central license to give us that detail. We are also backing up our virtual Nutanix environment on a daily basis. So I'm not too concerned about data protection, as a whole, because if we do have issues, there is an easy way to get things restored. But I will say that, when it comes to updating a server, I always take a snapshot of it beforehand, so if I do run into issues, I can just restore it from that snapshot. Going into 2023, one of our main goals is security, as a whole. I'm sure there will be things across our infrastructure that we will look at on the security side. We don't use any extra Nutanix security mechanisms right now, but that possibility is in place for next year. Overall, I'm very impressed with Nutanix. I would highly recommend to anyone who is looking for a hyper-converged infrastructure to look at Nutanix. That's mainly because of the simplicity and overall ease of use of the product, and their support.

So far it has all been working beyond my expectations. Nutanix is disabling some of the backend SSH, so authentication and authorization are changing. It's definitely going to be in line with what most other vendors are doing. I see Microsoft disabling basic authentication and going into other kinds. It's keeping pace with the latest and emerging trends and technologies. It's capable of auto-maintenance, but it does require some maintenance on my part. Over the past couple of weeks, when I log in to Prism, I have seen alerts, most of them automated messages about high utilization, but some of them have needed human intervention. We have a team of four involved in maintenance of the solution. I lead the team and the others have yet to dive into it. The entire team is pretty new.

Prism is tied into the Nutanix environment. If you're looking at Nutanix as a solution, make sure that you look at the hardware that it's running on and that it meets your needs. That is the one place where we ran into issues. We started out on hardware that ended up being too low-spec for us and we ended up having to get more hardware than we had initially envisioned. It wasn't spec'd out properly in the beginning. But that's not related to Prism itself. To this day, I don't think I've encountered a product that's as easy to use as Prism is, for everything that it does.

We haven't used the automation part of Nutanix very much. We did use it during our migration and it was certainly helpful when we were migrating systems and had to change system configurations, automating that. But for day-to-day tasks, we have not fully ported everything over from traditional, three-tier onto Nutanix. That's why we haven't spent a lot of time on automation within Prism.

I would definitely recommend Nutanix Prism.

As of now, I'm quite satisfied. I really appreciate the efforts of the engineers and architects who are developing the solution's features and software for us. I would recommend Nutanix Prism.

I rate the solution nine out of 10.

I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

I'd advise anybody thinking of buying Prism to consider buying their hardware and software from Nutanix to ensure compatibility and benefit from their one-click upgrade feature. Prism is an impeccable solution, and I would rate it nine out of ten.

I would recommend Nutanix based on its stability and support. The Nutanix site have extensive documentation so this makes it easy to self learn about this solution. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

I would recommend implementing Nutanix Prism to anyone considering using it as a solution for their organization. Overall, I would rate this product an eight out of 10.

I cannot truly recommend Nutanix Prism for others. It was just the one time for us, and in the future we will use another solution because it seems that whatever hyper-converged system we might use, like VMware's vSAN or Nutanix, will still have a lot of issues with either the application or database. Thus, for us, we may return to a more standard solution such as hardware-based storage with our own servers, rather than software-defined solutions. We have spent a lot of money on the Nutanix solution that could have been better spent elsewhere, such as on high-end storage with plenty of IOPS and bandwidth. I would rate Nutanix Prism a five out of ten.

I would not recommend Prism and would rate it seven out of ten.

I use Nutanix Prism. It's a three-node solution for virtualization. It's an on-premise solution. I don't remember which version I'm using. The solution is being used within our organization, but we also have customers hosted on top of that, so I don't remember exactly how many people are using Nutanix Prism. For deployment and maintenance of the solution, you'll need two people: one system administrator and one network L2 or L3. I can recommend Nutanix Prism to others who want to start using it, but my advice is for them to get the POC done first. They have to understand the environment, use cases, and what they're looking for, then they can make their call. I'm rating Nutanix Prism nine out of ten.

I rate Nutanix Prism a nine out of ten.

The company I currently work for may have a relationship with Nutanix. I can't say for sure. They may be partners. I'm not sure if I am using the Pro or the regular version. I was not the person who installed it. I'm just a user. That said, we are always using the most recent version of the product. I'd recommend the solution to others. The cost is okay. I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

Nutanix Prism is a good solution. It is better than other products. I recommend it.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Nutanix Prism a seven. It can be improved.

It is a very complex solution with many different functionalities. Prism Element is for enterprises of any size. In Prism Pro or Prism Ultimate, the functionality is a bit locked to the company size and the IT infrastructure size. You don't always need a very big installation for a big business. I would advise others to use Prism Central because Prism Element does not have all the required management features that Prism Central has. I would recommend this solution for all organizations planning to build infrastructure for any size and change. It is easy for changes in size or functionality. I would rate Nutanix Prism a nine out of ten.

Nowadays, I recommend that people use Nutanix Prism. I have been using Nutanix for two years and feel that it is very good compared to VMware. I spent six years working with VMware and am more comfortable with Nutanix. They are very supportive. My only complaints about Nutanix are that downtime is required more often and the issue with resource limitations when clustering. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

My advice for anybody who is implementing Nutanix Prism is to use the hypervisor that comes with it because there is no reason to use another one. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We're using the latest version of the solution. We're not a direct customer of Nutanix. We mostly handle support of the solution. I'm still learning about the resolution. I'm going through training manuals and picking up what I can. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. Overall, it's been good. I'm still getting used to it though.

I would rate this solution a 10 out of 10.

Overall, this product is a good choice. You get a lot of features at a lower price. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

This is a great product, easy to deploy and very stable. Even if you are using VMware or Hyper V or AHV on Nutanix, it's very stable. I would rate this solution a nine out of 10.

Overall, this is a good product and I highly recommend it. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We aren't using the latest version of the solution. It might be the latest minus one. The bank always goes for a minus version and not the latest version because of some compliance-related issues related to bank policies. I'd recommend the solution. It's quite good. As an alternative, VxRail is also a good option. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. I'm very happy with this product. My workload is currently running on production on a Nutanix box, and it is working absolutely fine. There are no issues. It offers good performance and optimization. It's resilient.

Anyone considering the solution should give it a test run. Try it in your environment. Check if your applications or your credit systems are compatible. I would say to anyone who has the budget to go for it, it's a really good system. There is always space for improvement so I would rate the product a nine out of 10.

I would rate Nutanix Prism Pro at an eight out of ten.

Three important things will minimize the number of people required to run your center. * Multi-Access Login. * Simplified Management. * System administration. I would also suggest going with Prism Pro. You will get more features, and with the Normal Nutanix Prism, you are getting limited features. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

I would advise others using VDI to add All-Flash clusters, so no ordinary disk, but All-Flash disks for performance. That's something I would suggest, but that is more specific for VDI environments. I would rate this product a nine out of 10.

Nutanix Prism is a good solution and I recommend it. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

On a scale of one to ten, I will rate this solution an eight. What I'd like to see in the next release, is for it to be open to other platforms. That would be great, because now it's only available on Mac, IBM and Dell. Perhaps wide-open hardware would be great. In the past we used to get alarms and an detector. Sometimes the messages you get from a problem doesn't point directly to the origin of the problem. So you have to elaborate some things for having a conclusion on what is failing. Perhaps they can improve this entire process, from beginning to the end, where you find a solution. In other words, being able to make the right decision faster.